Astros Minor League Recap: June 27th, 2017
Another day of baseball in the books. See how the teams and prospects performed in their games last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (40-38) won 6-3 (BOX SCORE)
Morton made his 2nd rehab start and pitched well tossing 4 scoreless innings on just 47 pitches (29 strikes). Fresno jumped out to an early lead on a 3 run HR from Fisher in the first, his 17th HR of the season (in AAA). Fresno would play add on getting a Brignac RBI triple in the 4th, White solo HR in the 5th, and Tucker RBI single in the 6th. Smith relieved Morton and allowed 3 runs, 2 earned, over 4 innings. Perez pitched a perfect 9th to pick up the save.
Note: Kemp is hitting .487 over his last 10 games
- Tony Kemp, 2B: 2-for-4, R, 2B
- Tyler White, 1B: 1-for-3, 2 R, HR, RBI, BB
- Teoscar Hernandez, CF: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Colin Moran, 3B: 2-for-4, 2B
- Derek Fisher, DH: 1-for-4, R, HR, 3 RBI
- Preston Tucker, RF: 1-for-4, RBI
- Juan Centeno, C: 0-for-3, R, BB
- Reid Brignac, SS: 2-for-3, 3B, RBI, BB
- Charlie Morton, RHP: 4.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
- Kyle Smith, RHP: 4.0 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (WIN)
- Tyson Perez, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (SAVE)
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (38-38) OFF
A+: Buies Creek Astros (39-37) lost 6-5 (BOX SCORE)
Bower got the start and allowed 2 runs over 2.2 innings with 3 BB/2 K. Buies Creek would tie the game at 2 in the 3rd on a DeGoti solo HR and a Straw triple when he scored on a balk. Buies Creek entered the 8th down 5-2 but got 1 run back on a Straw RBI single. Down 2 runs in the 9th inning, Wrenn tied the game on a 2 run HR. The game would stay tied at 5 until the 15th, mainly due to Hernandez who tossed 4 perfect innings with 7 strikeouts. Unfortunately, Carolina took the lead in the 15th off of Kessay and Buies Creek was unable to respond.
Note: Hernandez since April 22nd – 21 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 6 BB, 32 K
- Myles Straw, RF: 3-for-7, R, 3B, RBI, SB
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 0-for-3, 3 BB
- Jake Rogers, C: 2-for-4, R, 2B, 2 BB
- Stephen Wrenn, CF: 1-for-6, R, HR, 2 RBI
- Alex DeGoti, SS: 1-for-6, R, HR, RBI
- Matt Bower, LHP: 2.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
- Howie Brey, LHP: 3.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
- Sean Stutzman, LHP: 3.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
- Nick Hernandez, RHP: 4.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K
- Sebastian Kessay, LHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (41-33) won 6-5 (BOX SCORE)
Quad Cities opened quick getting 1 run in the first inning on a Franco RBI single. They fell behind 3-1 but battled back getting 1 run in the 4th on a Dawson solo HR and 3 more runs in the 5th on a Dawson RBI single and 2 more runs scoring on an error. Valdez started and allowed 5 runs over 6 innings but Pinales tossed 3 scoreless innings to close it.
Note: Franco is hitting .333 over his last 10 games.
- Jonathan Arauz, SS: 3-for-5, 2 R, 2B, 3B
- Daz Cameron, CF: 1-for-3, R, BB, SB
- Ronnie Dawson, DH: 3-for-5, R, HR, 2 RBI
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 1-for-4
- Marcos Almonte, RF: 1-for-5
- Gabriel Bracamonte, C: 1-for-4, R
- Wander Franco, 3B: 2-for-5, R, RBI
- Gabriel Valdez, RHP: 6.0 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 4 K (WIN)
- Erasmo Pinales, RHP: 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K (SAVE)
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (3-4) OFF
Rookie: Greeneville Astros (3-2) won 4-2 (BOX SCORE)
- Chas McCormick, RF: 2-for-4, R, 2B, 3 RBI, BB
- Cody Bohanek, 2B: 2-for-5, 2 R, 2B, RBI
- Roman Garcia, 1B: 2-for-4, R, 2B, 3B, BB
- Brody Westmoreland, 3B: 1-for-5, 2B, RBI
- Frankeny Fernandez, DH: 1-for-5, RBI
- Gilberto Celestino, CF: 1-for-3, 2 R, 2 BB
- Joan Mauricio, SS: 1-for-5, RBI
- Wilson Amador, LF: 1-for-4, R, 3B
- Austin Kerns, LHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- Cole Watts, LHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
- Juan Robles, RHP: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 K (WIN)
- Willy Collado, RHP: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
- Ian Hardman, RHP: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K (SAVE)
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Trent Thornton (5.68 ERA)
CC: OFF
BC: Framber Valdez (3.04 ERA)
QC: Forrest Whitley (3.29 ERA)
TC: TBD
GV: Tim Hardy (0.00 ERA)
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